Potluck BBQ at Slide Hill Park - August 3rd, 2008 @ 2pm till all the food is gone! (assuming you are not a grass-eater)

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SunjeetBaadkar will bring hot dogs and buns (also for hamburger) and other randomness...maybe some homemade cookies if I wake up early enough to do that. Oh, and I'll try to bring ice and/or soda. Time to find that ice cooler...

ChrisLambertus offers to man the grill, and will bring charcoal, fire, plates, sporks, meat, beer, and a cooler with ice. Send me a message if you want me to bring anything from costco.

IDoNotExist may or may not exist at the BBQ, and will likely bring objects to eat off of and eat with. Update: Whoops. I probably will not exist there after all, due to an unscheduled scheduling conflict with a conflicting schedule.

2008-06-25 22:39:50 It is possible that I might cause myself to exist briefly for such an event. Although, it might be better to have it on a day where most people do not have alternate events or commitments. —IDoNotExist

2008-06-26 18:03:33 Turns out I will be in town afterall. Sweet! —JonathanLawton

2008-06-26 22:53:33 I'll be gone, but don't let that stop the fun! —DougWalter

2008-06-27 09:20:02 Given the intense heat and other adverse environmental conditions (such as the current smoke problem), I wonder if it might be a good idea to make the event an indoor event somewhere - either as a potluck, or perhaps as something at an inexpensive restaurant where everyone would order something for themselves. The current forecast for July 5th is the mid to high 90s. —IDoNotExist

2008-06-27 10:26:32 Good call about the weather. Plus, I don't know who'd do the actual bbqing. I know I have the ability, but not the commitment or tools. —SunjeetBaadkar

2008-06-27 11:47:04 I propose having the event at Crepeville. They have many tables and air conditioning. It's also easy for people to order individually, but sit as a group there. They also have a wide variety of relatively inexpensive and tasty food. The disadvantage is that Crepeville can get crowded, so there is some chance that there will be insufficient seating. Another possibility is to meet in the MU Coffee House. There are many free tables there right now because of the summer break. There are many inexpensive dining options. Space for a large number of people will be trivial to find. —IDoNotExist

2008-06-27 11:54:03Dawiso is already meeting at Crepeville on the 13th. The current weather isn't that bad... The smoke is a bummer, but I think it's keeping things a bit cooler. —JonathanLawton

2008-06-27 22:37:58 The Dawiso meeting should also be mentioned somewhere obvious (upcoming events, for example?) I had no idea that it existed until I read the previous comment. —IDoNotExist

My sentiments exactly. Maybe a link somewhere on the Front Page would be useful.— MaryLieth

2008-06-27 23:10:08 Also, I'd suggest naming Dawiso (as well as the BBQ, which I think I mentioned before) with a descriptive name. What exactly is a Dawiso? It looks like it might be an acronym for Davis Wiki So. So? So what? So...liloquy? So...phomore? There is no explanation of this on the Dawiso page (although there is a description of what the group is), and those who are trying to find a group of wiki users who meet at restaurants and discuss the dihydrogen monoxide problem are unlikely to find it. I'd suggest picking a name that describes what the group actually is, and that is not an acronym. (Acronyms obfuscate what things actually are, and make it much harder to find the thing you are looking for.) —IDoNotExist

2008-06-28 07:53:21 Personally, I'd suggest just making it a Davis Social Meeting, and making it open to all. There's an (accidental, I am sure) connotation of a distinction between the Davis Community and the Davis Wiki Community when it's phrased like that. The Davis Wiki serves the Davis Community, not an extracted subset that has meetings unto themselves (or so I'd hope). —JabberWokky

2008-07-01 18:26:39 The owner of Ali Baba is willing to give everyone a discount of $1 off of any order over $10 if we hold the BBQ there. Note: I am not affiliated with Ali Baba, and I am not the owner of it. —IDoNotExist

If people want to have meetups at restaurants, that's wonderful, but I think that this should be in addition to the traditional park potluck BBQ, not a replacement. A BBQ in the park is pretty much the most inclusive event possible - families with young kids, people on limited budgets, and people with dietary restrictions are likely to have a hard time at a restaurant. Trust me, you'd rather have my kids around at a park than at an eating establishment, unless you're talking McDonald's. —JessicaLuedtke

2008-07-01 18:46:32 If I show up to the BBQ and somebody sees me, do I exist? And if I do, do I suddenly cease to exist as a result? If so, then I really don't exist. :-) And if I don't cease to exist, then I must not exist either. —IDoNotExist

2008-07-04 09:48:09 Is this taking place tomorrow? If so, where? and when? —IDoNotExist

Usually somebody just steps in and declares it so! Gotta be decisive on the wiki!

2008-07-04 14:47:29 I'd love to lead the bbq, but I have no idea where a good place to set it up is. I've been hearing Slide Park is a decent place. I suppose I can start off and say I'll lead next time...maybe between Summer Sessions in 4 weeks? Or sooner? I can buy a grip of charcoal and hot dogs. —SunjeetBaadkar

2008-07-05 00:41:06 Perhaps a rescheduled event would need to have version number 3.1? :-) —IDoNotExist

2008-07-19 10:17:05 How do I make sure we have Slide Park on a particular day? I was thinking of organizing something for the Sunday between summer sessions. —SunjeetBaadkar

Reservations aren't really necessary for the smallish gatherings we have (unlike Celebrate Davis and such). If someone else happens to be using the park for their own event, the more, the merrier, eh? —wl

2008-07-27 15:37:28 Someone else posted a wiki bbq for August 2nd on the event board (same place and time). Are these supposed to be the same thing, or two totally separate entities? —MaryLieth

I believe that someone else has already posted in on the events board... —StevenDaubert

2008-07-28 16:40:13 So the BBQ is this Sunday, right? I'm so there! —CurlyGirl26

2008-07-28 21:34:43 perhaps the ucd meat lab would be a good idea for the BBQ?! communal pool of scratch on delicious flesh? —StevenDaubert

2008-07-28 21:45:50 Crazy idea, but maybe we could combine this with the Bike Church's work party on Aug 2 (saturday). They are in danger of being shut down (see the bike church page), so maybe if we got a bunch of people to come out — in addition to having a BBQ — that would help them? The only question, I think, would be if it'd be cool for us to haul a BBQ to the domes. The church folk would know, though..? —PhilipNeustrom

2008-07-30 10:34:42 So I scheduled one on saturday then like 10 minutes later, someone moved it to sunday. What a punk...but hey, I'm still going! —ChristopherMckenzie

2008-07-30 17:13:54 Nice drop shadow. I hope that it is cooler that day than the picture implies... —IDoNotExist

I think the reference in the photo is about internet flames, or at least thats how I saw it... —StevenDaubert

Open to interpretation, but I when I made it, I was thinking that the event would get so big that those are the people handling the cooking for the huge throngs of attendees. It brought a smile to my face. The overuse of Drop Shadows, Internal Shine, Translucency, Rounded Corners and OverlappinTgext is, of course, because this is Version 3.0, even better than Web 2.0.

2008-07-31 16:33:44 I'm so happy this has finally taken off. I've been very out of it for the last week and sorta forgot everything about this. Now I'm again looking forward to this weekend. Maybe I'll bake cookies in addition to the hotdogs. BTW...how much meat should I bring? I would bring burgers, but I'm sorta low on cash... —SunjeetBaadkar

2008-08-01 19:06:12 my plan is to hit costco on the way over for supplies: meat, plates/utensils (disposable), trash bags. I will bring a cooler with some ice too. —ChrisLambertus

2008-08-01 19:42:05 Love the new logo. I hope to stop by with Jake. —EdHenn

2008-08-01 20:20:10 Sunjeet, do your buns include those of the hamburger variety? Yes? :D —JonathanLawton

2008-08-01 21:03:20 Are we gonna have name tags? I want to finally put names to faces. —Aaron.Curtin

2008-08-01 21:41:59 Name tags are a good idea. I'll bring a Sharpie. And some of those sticky things if I remember. —CurlyGirl26

2008-08-02 02:10:36 so does slide hill park have bbqs or do i need to bring one ? —ChrisLambertus

2008-08-02 02:11:24 also: drop me a message here if you want me to pick anything up at costco —ChrisLambertus

2008-08-02 08:14:31 ChrisLambertus - I could use a few of those LCD TV's at Costco if you can fit them in your car. ;) —Aaron.Curtin

2008-08-02 10:50:26 I'm wondering if someone should bring some sort of music type device. I could bring my guitar, but I'm not performance worthy at all... —SunjeetBaadkar

2008-08-02 18:26:43 I was just thinking someone should bring veggies of some kind. If I have the money, I might, but I don't want to be bringing too much stuff... (I tend to be stupidly generous) —SunjeetBaadkar

2008-08-03 03:02:28 whoever asked me about hamburgers (you weren't signed in, just got an IP address,) I can bring some frozen ones from costco. I don't like to make fresh ones for events like this, too much work and too hard to keep everything cold and clean. my meat plan was mainly sausages. Here's my current list:

2008-08-04 14:30:52 Fantastic little get together. An awesomely wide and shady spot. The food was delicious and plentiful and the company was fine. I hope we get to do it again! —Sankofa416

2008-08-05 21:12:40 The food was great and I'm glad there was plenty of drinks for everyone (I was worried there wouldn't be enough). Those short ribs were fantastic! I think we should have another bbq right before school starts for the fall. —SunjeetBaadkar